Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Shakira of bowling

"I don't remember having a better time than that in months. From watching Irene and her original approach to bowling (you'd think she was throwing rocks) to the bowling clinic that Alan put especially for us (four strikes and three spares just to get started? Get outta here!), to Lynn's outrageously funny dances (she's the Shakira of bowling) or Butch's Chippendale-like celebrations (ouch, my eyes!), it was really an unforgettable evening."(June 3, 2008, Live from Waterloo)

The deal

Everybody is the Rosa Parks of something—or at least the Michael Phelps, Cap'n Crunch, Dick Cheney, Elmer Fudd, or Paris Hilton of whatever. This blog collects examples of the adaptable idiom "X is the Y of Z", which is a snowclone. Feel free to use these descriptions when discussing your beautiful children, longtime companions, sworn enemies, favorite foods, and elected congress-scum.